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M. RUMELYV GRAIN DELIVERY FOR TH'RESHING MACHINES. No. 564,765.

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UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE.

MEINRAD RUMELY, OF LA PORTE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO THE M. RUMELY COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

GRAIN-DELIVERY FOR THRESHlNG-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 564,765, dated July 28, 1896.

Application filed August 23, 1895. Serial N0. 560,200. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MEINRAD RUMELY, a citizen of the United States, residing in La Porte, in the county of La Porte and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Grain-Deliveries for Threshing- Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is intended to aiford the owners of threshingmachines facilities for bagging the grain which shall be more convenient than those heretofore used.

It has been customary heretofore to provide threshing-machines either with special bagging attachments Which can only be used when the elevator is detached and in place of the elevator, or the elevator has been made in two parts adapted to be disconnected, each part having its own elevating chain or belt, so that the bagging attachment can be applied to the lower part or section of the elevator, or the movable spout through which the grain has been conducted or delivered from the elevator into the wagon has been provided with a bagging attachment. The first of these constructions requires the use of an expensive, heavy, and cumbersome bagging attachment which cannot be used when the elevator is used, nor without removing the elevator and substituting the attachment. By my invention I am enabled to use the same elevator in bagging which is used in loading wagons, and the bagging attachment or so much thereof as is removable is very much reduced in size and weight, inasmuch as itembodies no mechanism whatever for elevating the grain. The second construction referred to is inconvenient in use and troublesome to manipulate,besides increasing the amount of power required to operate it. A still further objection to it is that it is not possible to change the machine so it will load a wagon after a portion of the grain has been bagged without a laborious dismantling operation which my invention entirely obviates. In the third construction, while the machine can be changed from one delivery to the other readily, yet there are other objections to that form. The spout to which the bagging attachment is secured is too far from the ground to permit its use in filling bags supported upon the ground and it is not convenient of manipulation or control. The bagging attachment is also objectionable when applied to the spout, because it increases the weight of the latter and renders it more difficult to hold in position without supporting it at the outer end.

In my improvement I employ an elevator of the customary construction. In other words, the elevator is of the full length used in spouting the grain into wagons, and has a single elevating belt or chain, and it is\without. joints of any kind. Upon the under side of this elevator and within convenient reach of the ground I form a valved opening to which a bagging-head may be applied. lVhen the valve is open, the grain will be diverted from the elevator-chain by the provision which the opening affords for its escape. Across the opening I place guides which will prevent the elevator buckets from being caught as they pass the opening. with this construction and location of the bagging device it is only necessary for the operator when he wishes to change the place of delivering the grain from the upper spout to the bagging attachment, or from the latter to the former, to open or close the valve controlling the opening in the elevator side.

In the accompanying drawings I show, at Figure I, a partial elevation of a threshingmachine provided with my invention; at Fig. 2, a partial longitudinal section of the eleva tor, and at Fig. 3 a partial section at right angles to Fig. 2 at the bagging dischargeopening. I

In said drawings, Arepresents the ordinary full length elevator used upon threshingmachines and adapted to carry the grain up to such a height as will enable it to be spoutedthrough the spout B into a wagon. The spout B is also of the ordinary construction and is freely jointed to the elevator, so it'can be positioned to deliver the grain in the desired direction. vator and within a convenient distance from the ground is an opening 0, adapted to permit the grain to fall out from the elevator buckets or paddles as they pass said opening. A valve or gate D is hinged above this opening and controls the same. A pin cl holds the Upon the under side of this e1evalve open, and a similar pin d may be used to hold it closed. Across the opening 0 are the series of wires E, which act as guides to the paddles F of the elevator belt or chain and prevent them from being caught at the opening 0. The grain, however, is practically unobstructed by them. Outside the openings O is the housing G, to which the bagger-head H may be attached either p'ermanently or removably, as desired. The head is provided with hooks 72 upon which the bags may be hung.

It will be seen that the only change necessary in the apparatus, if it is desired to spout the grain into a wagon, is to lower the valve D, or if it is desired to bag the grain instead of loading it into the Wagon the valve D is opened, so that the machine can be used either way during the same run and changed as often as necessary; also, that the bagging devices in no way interfere with or hinder the use of or positioning of the spout B.

I clain1- An inclined elevator for threshinginachines having a valved opening in its under side, in combination with a bagger-head attached to the elevator at such opening, substantially as specified.

MEINRAD RUMELY.

\Vitnesses L. L. STALEY, J 0s. J. RUMELY. 

